Heart Attack Grill--nutritional pornography?

OHMIGOD!

OK, do I have your attention? In a recent MSNBC article, I read the nurses are outraged by the "nurse" costumes worn by the staff at the Heart Attack Grill. THAT'S the controversy? The UNIFORMS?

Excuse ME!?

How about the food itself? Just the name should tell you 'stay away!' The article goes on to say, the Heart Attack Grill opened a year ago with a Hooters-like formula of red meat and sexy waitresses. Diners choose from among four cheeseburgers: the Single, Double, Triple and Quadruple Bypass. The Quadruple is a towering monstrosity with four half-pound beef patties, four pieces of cheese and a mound of bacon.

“Essentially, it’s nutritional pornography. It’s so bad for you it’s shocking,” Basso said.

Basso OWNS this place and calls his food "nutritional pornography"? Why nurse costumes, why not have the burger flingers wear undertaker outfits and pass the food out in little coffins? In a day and age where 2.6 MILLION people DIED prematurely last year across the globe because of Obesity and Overweight related causes, do we really need a restaurant peddling sure death and mocking it while they do?

I completely am for clever business ideas and companies making profits, but this just isn't funny and it is a HORRIBLE idea. They even do the extra step and offer wheelchair service to your car after eating their Guadruple Bypass burger! Their motto is "A taste worth DYING for!"--are they serious? They can't be. I swear I am ready to go ballistic on this one!

The only thing I find funny about this is that nurses are upset saying that nursing has too many sexual fantasies connected with it already. Ok, in a day and age where nursing units across the nation hold "Thunder Thigh Thursday" and many nurses are themselves overweight and in poor health--the UNIFORMS are what they are choosing to issue?

My challenge to the nursing profession and those threatening to sue the establishment over the sexy nurse costumes; get a backbone and take a stand on the really important issue! The fact that if people eat this crap, you are going to have more and more patients dying on your watch from Obesity and Overweight related causes and a few of them might even be your own peers.

If you aren't part of the solution, you are part of the problem! I know I am right in what I am saying. I have more teachers and nurses as readers and clients than any other professions collectively. You are all "thanked" by patients, parents, administrative staff with FOOD! You know I am right and you know it is time to take a stand.

Nurses against nutritional pornography needs to be your cause, not nurses against naughty attire!

Carpe Diet!
Julia

Sick Care vs. Health Care

Sick Care vs. Health Care - Do you know which side you are on? There is a difference, and these are not two phrases that we can throw around anymore as if to joke about the truth of most medical care (aside from emergencies and some antibiotics, in my humble opinion). Sick care is waiting until you get sick and getting medicine to "heal" you, while the side effects tear down your body and your immune system, only to have you back to the MD's office needing more "healing" (drugs). This spiraling downward can go on for YEARS, until one day you don't wake up... or you wake up to the truth that you need to just eat right and exercise to be healthy!

The Overweight Epidemic (from Paul Zane Pilzer)

"In the past, we have always associated poverty with being terribly thin, mostly due to starvation. When I was young I wanted to grow up to be a “rich fat man.” Today, the tables have turned; “poor” and “fat” have become synonymous, and “rich fat man” has become an oxymoron! Centuries ago, the only corpulent people were royalty and wealthy landowners. Today, the lower the income, the more we see obesity, and the higher the income, the more we see men and women who are fit and trim, defying their age. [Get a copy of his book, The Wellness Revolution]

Since 1980, we have more than doubled the percentage of overweight and obese people in the United States. In 1980, 15 percent of the population was obese; by the year 2000, that number had jumped to 27 percent—that’s 77 million clinically obese people! Today, 61 percent of the U.S. population is overweight and headed towards obesity—which has increased 10 percent to almost 30 percent of the U.S. population. As a result, 18 million Americans have diabetes and another 41 million over age 40 have prediabetes. Most people with prediabetes develop type 2 diabetes in 10 years. Sixty-five percent of people with diabetes die from heart disease or stroke, and the medical costs alone to treat diabetes now exceeds $100 billion a year.

Moreover, overweight and obesity are also symptoms of poor nutrition. Typically someone who is obese is also vitamin-deficient and suffers from fatigue and arthritis or other ailments that all stem from poor nutrition. Our food industry, which represents about one trillion dollars annually, exacerbates the problem by catering to the “lowest common denominator” of poor nutrition.

What about our health care? The truth is, what we call “health care” is not really the health business but the sickness business. Our medical industry today has very little to do with health. The $2 trillion we spend on medical care, which represents one-sixth of the U.S. economy, is concerned almost exclusively with treating the symptoms of illness. It has very little to do with preventing illnesses or with making people feel stronger or healthier."

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